A few posed photos with me and Mara when she was 1 day old.

Can tell which is Hannah and which is Mara.  Scroll down for the answer.

Hannah’s on the left, 1st photo, Mara’s on the right, second photo.

Mara Lorraine Pace was born a healthy baby girl at 2:16pm, weighed 6 pounds 10 oz, 18 inches tall, and doing well. More info to come. Ashlee is doing great too.

Looks like we are going to have a c-section today so we will get to meet Mara.

Hannah has had edamame on a couple occasions in the past, but tonight she figured out how to get the little beans out of their wrapper on her own.  Unfortunately, by the time we thought about getting some video of it, she was already pretty full.  So most of the video is her talking about all the errands she has to do.  Enjoy the video, it is still pretty cute.

[youtubehq sfvjOQsimEU Eating Edamame]

We had a pretty big snow storm in Chicago a couple days ago.  We got about 8 inches over the course of about 24 hours.  Hannah and the doggies of course love it.  Here is a short video of Hannah trying to walk through the snow and some photos of Nadia standing up to her elbows.
[youtubehq FMHcoWYYcsY Hannah in Snow]

In picture number one you see a young male trying to hang onto the last remnants of his former more natural self (and doing a pretty fine job of it.)  In picture number two you see this same male on the right having fully given in to the more civilized life.  Both these photos are of camping/hiking trips that my dad took with his cousin.  The trips were separated by about 30 years.

Here are the photos from our Christmas 2009 in Steilacoom.  Also a short video.  Mostly of Hannah being cute.  We had a great time.

[youtubehq 5IV6fdGdRWg Christmas 2009]